Sharing ideas and ressources about Tango-DJing
Since quite recently I observe a general shift in tango djing. A lot of DJs are today putting a lot of effort into recovering the most authentic sound in the milongas. This translates into investing in high end sound devices, prefering lossless sound formats over lossy codecs, analysing sound files and playing correctly tuned tracks.…
I was recently looking at the Edgardo Donato recordings in my collection when I noticed that some of the same tangos produced at the same recording date differ in duration. Certain El Bandoneón recordings are of a shorter duration than the corresponding recordings from other labels. I recalled that I have read before articles on…
Against any expectation today my door bell ringed quite early … It was the postman with a nice little packet. I received the first set of CDs from the Japanese label A.M.P. They are all produced by the famous collector Yoshihiro Oiwa and contain some rare tangos. Good to have some friends in Japan 😉…
When I started digitising my existing tango CD collection, I thought that OGG Vorbis would be a good choice as a compression format. Especially the El Corte DJ manual stresses that most of the older tango recordings until the wider spread of the stereo recordings in the late 50s contain rarely more than 100…